SLM Database

Trenches with soil bunds constructed in a tied manner along contour lines to trap surface runoff and sediments from degraded uplands

• Compiler: Aqila Haidery
• 06/26/2011 12:15 p.m.

Integrated gully treatment consisting of several simple practices including stone and wooden check dams, cut-off drains and reforestation in sediment traps (biotrampas).

• Compiler: Georg Heim
• 11/10/2010 2:25 p.m.

Permeable rock dams serve to restore seriously degraded farmland and forest/rangeland and are used to fill in gullies and control water flow.

• Compiler: Dieter Nill
• 09/25/2014 7:58 a.m.

Les ados sont des diguettes en terres disposées en courbes de niveau dont la base est comprise entre 0,7 m et 1 m et dont la hauteur vaut 0,5 m.

• Compiler: Sounkali SERME
• 12/16/2012 2:31 p.m.

In sandy areas, old rice bags are filled with sand and piled up as dikes bordering irrigation channels, and Pandanus plants are used to stabilize them on the long term.

• Compiler: Stefan Graf
• 11/06/2014 10:50 a.m.

A solar water pump is a technology that uses solar panels to convert the solar power to electricity for pumping water from different sources including an underground source of water. The use of solar water pump is to reduces the operating costs, and avoid the CO2 emission, which is a …

• Compiler: Sok Pheak
• 10/12/2017 9:12 a.m.

Norias are water-pumping wheels made of bamboo which are used to irrigate paddy fields in order to increase the yield.

• Compiler: Christoph Kaufmann
• 10/27/2014 3:16 a.m.

This equipment is able to automatically pump water without the use of fuel, requires little maintenance and can transfer water for domestic and agricultural uses including livestock raising and the cultivation of crops.

• Compiler: Be Gechkim
• 05/02/2017 4:02 a.m.

Water-spreading weirs are structures that span the entire width of a valley to spread floodwater over the adjacent land area.

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 03/08/2012 2:54 p.m.

A Rat tunnel is a kind of subdrainage. It is a drainage duct formed through extrusion or oscillation in soil layer by pulling a mole plough with a tractor. The rat tunnels in a field should be used together with a concealed conduit drainage system in order to safely and …

• Compiler: Mei Zhao
• 02/28/2013 12:13 p.m.